Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 29 Oct 2001 08:21:04 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Sean Noonan <snoonan@snoonan.com>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: PROB:  building ports when /usr/ports is a symbolic link?
Message-ID:  <20011029082104.C35710@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMOEKEEFAA.snoonan@snoonan.com>; from snoonan@snoonan.com on Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:56:19PM -0800
References:  <KIEPJNLEBFIFHLFBELKMOEKEEFAA.snoonan@snoonan.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 12:56:19PM -0800, Sean Noonan wrote:
> I have several FreeBSD boxes and I don't want to cvsup the ports collection
> on all of them, only one of them.  I've created a symbolic link on the box
> that does not have a real /usr/ports directory to the ports directory on the
> box that actually has a /usr/ports directory (e.g., cd /usr ; ln -s
> portspc:/usr/ports /ports).

Are all the machines at the same LAN? In that case I would share it via NFS.
If they are all over the world, I would make the packages on one
system and distribute them from there.

Just my 2 cents,
Edwin

-- 
Edwin Groothuis   |              Personal website: http://www.MavEtJu.org
edwin@mavetju.org |           Interested in MUDs? Visit Fatal Dimensions:
------------------+                       http://www.FatalDimensions.org/

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20011029082104.C35710>